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Tag Archives: Bubonic plague
Fed by the Shadow of Death
Renaissance painters were masters of light, life, death and shadow
The cultural bloom of the Italian – and wider European – Renaissance was fed by the shadow of death. The bubonic plague was carried by fleas traveling on rodents, who then hitched rides along the expanding trade routes in the … Continue reading